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Notice of Exhibition Race

World Ice Racing Circuit
Fire on Ice at Lake Phalen,
Presented by Great Clips®
A Saint Paul Winter Carnival Event.
Saturday January 30th

Mark your calendars!

Fire on Ice, the competition for the Johnson Cup is Jan 30 an 31 on Lake Phalen in St Paul MN is rapidly approaching. We're publishing a notice of event this afternoon.

The IDNIYRA westerns this weekend, and is threatened by weather.

In order to have a Magic event at Phalen, to really make magic, thru the lens magic, we need to enhance the quality of our event along several fronts.

This is a reprint of an ice report, facing the annual pre Great Western Challenge Blizzard. Happens all the time.

Soundtrack: http://youtu.be/K0E9k70Tpz8

The weather service called her a Panhandle Hooker*, a Twisted Joyless Depression from South of here, who shows up to ruin all Icebound fun.

Followed closely by a Blue Norther, a brutish big mass of arctic air who cuts all the way to Mexico, filling in the void left by that Hooker with miserable cold, leaving a bite in the air that cut's deeply through any coat, numbing the senses, leaving little but pain.

Will Port still be Port when Bismarck Dinius gets to Court?

http://justicefordinius.home.comcast.net/~justicefordinius/dinius/The_St...

They started jury selection in the Bismark Dinius Trial yesterday, http://www.boatus.com/seaworthy/justice.asp, as Trial Court Judge ruled, last week, something about classic questions of fact to be determined by a jury...

Oh boy; Were the running lights working? http://justicefordinius.home.comcast.net/~justicefordinius/dinius/Chilco...

Even in the "Don't Confuse us with the facts, we've made up our minds" Lake County California, Prosecutor's Office, Port is still Port, Starboard is still Starboard, things they cannot change.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znEePD1nJxo

A sailor, Bismarck Dinius, after a regatta on Clear Lake, CA, jumped on an O'Day 27 for a starlight cruise with some friends... pitch black, starry skies, light breeze, what a promising night for a sail.

Open in new window: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nTRT2Ldau8

Gusting to about 4 mph, ghosting along, they were hit by a 375 hp 24' Baja powerboat, doing between 40 and 60 mph driven by the number two law enforcement guy in Lake County, CA, and Bismarck was sucked into the maelstrom, a perfect storm.

The Vernal Equinox, the perfect balance of dark and light, marking a new beginning.

Four weeks ago, after Geneva and Mendota had gone away, we sailed an epic Western Regionals on Lake Pepin the last weekend possible before it turned...

Two weeks ago we sailed Minnetonka, under similar, albeit rougher conditions, and it was great.

This weekend, sailors from Minnesota again are out sailing on ice, marking the end of a milestone season of ice racing in Minnesota. No doubt about it, 602 and 4811 will be telling us all we missed another epic weekend of ice sailing.

From the Close to the Edge files: Excuse me while I whip this out...

I know some girls will get naked on a frozen lake for a comfort stop, or whatever, but not many. : (

This simple fact of life seems to limit participation in our sport, because miles out there on a frozen lake in a speed suit, there simply is no place to go.

Seems to me, if there was something like a slightly more delicate way for a girl to take a leak there would be a lot more women spending their days on the ice.

Walking thru the C-store this morning the small picture at the top of the Star Tribune looked too familiar, sitting on a pile of sandbags, as The Red River of the North slowly inching towards a crest sure to test. (Front Page, Above the Fold)

John worked the front of my E Scow for about a decade in the 80's and we've lost touch, what a way to find an old friend...

Follow The IceMaker on Twitter...

http://twitter.com/TheIceMaker

Streaming On Line- Island 92, from tropical Sint Maarten,

Now blasting hot music to the frozen north!

http://pjil.streamon.fm/player/player.php?username=pjil&stream=44k&type=1

What a hoot!

Interview on iceboat racing to air on March 29 http://twitter.com/oceanmedia/status/1360243539

Faster, Faster, Faster Until the thrill of speed excedes the threat of death!

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Driving back from Pepin WI, listening to some great tunes (e.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuvXrTz8DY ), enjoying the spectacular vista's of Lake Pepin, and knowing the aches of a triple digit mileage sailing weekend will be with me for a few more hours... first it was just a flash across the windshield, could it be?

Yup, Coming down a hill at about 60, yup there's another...

Bugs in the windshield... I think it was a moth.

I'm pretty sure when they start hatching for the season, the lake nearby is toast!

It seems like we're sailing a lot of regattas on Lake Pepin lately. Two NA's and a couple maybe 3 Western Regionals come to mind, including this upcoming one.

Why is it that we seem to be rotating our regatta launch sites from Lake City, MN to Pepin WI and back, sailing on one side of the pond for one event, and on the other side of the pond for the next event? (open in seperate window) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6xmPQEgLGg

I don't know if this is by design or just the natural order of things DN, the DN way of doing regattas.

Garrison Keillor: The delicate art of brotherly love

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/40668967.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyq...

The passing of an "Ice Sailor" whom we did not know around here.

Well worth the read.

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